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What happened on 27 June?

4 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

  1. 2007 Gordon Brown's premiership Brown waits a decade for the job and spends it on the global financial crisis.
  2. 1950 The UN votes to defend South Korea With the Soviet delegate boycotting the Security Council over China's seat, the UN authorises member states to repel the North Korean invasion — the first collective military actio
  3. 1519 The Leipzig Disputation Debating the theologian Johann Eck, Luther is manoeuvred into admitting he holds views condemned as heresy at Constance a century earlier — and that councils, like popes, can err.
  4. 1991 Ten-Day War in Slovenia The Yugoslav army's half-hearted attempt to hold Slovenia collapses in ten days with under a hundred dead — the opening and mildest of the wars of Yugoslav succession.
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